Nym Djimurrgurr Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1910 - d. 2012

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      • OLD NYM DJIMURRGURR (c.1910-1970s) (Language group: Gunwinggu) Maraian Ceremony - Male and Female Barramundi c.1965 natural earth pi...
        Aug. 28, 2023

        OLD NYM DJIMURRGURR (c.1910-1970s) (Language group: Gunwinggu) Maraian Ceremony - Male and Female Barramundi c.1965 natural earth pi...

        Est: $7,000 - $10,000

        OLD NYM DJIMURRGURR (c.1910-1970s) (Language group: Gunwinggu) Maraian Ceremony - Male and Female Barramundi c.1965 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark artist's name, language group and description on unknown label attached verso 72 x 55cm PROVENANCE: Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 June 1999 Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney 1999 Private collection, Sydney OTHER NOTES: "The Turtle followed a dreaming path, and after fighting with Porcupine. As a man he had dragged a stick making creeks and rivers in the vicinity of Oenpelli and then as a Turtle he swam along these creeks and rivers, travelling by water and short stretches of Land - Following the same Dreaming path. He was cooked and eaten by Mimis but they never broke him up in pieces or burnt up his remains." As stated on the label attached verso

        Leonard Joel
      • OLD NYM DJIMURRGURR (c.1910-1970s) Maraian Ceremony - Male and Female Barramundi c.1965 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
        Mar. 21, 2023

        OLD NYM DJIMURRGURR (c.1910-1970s) Maraian Ceremony - Male and Female Barramundi c.1965 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

        Est: $10,000 - $15,000

        OLD NYM DJIMURRGURR (c.1910-1970s) Maraian Ceremony - Male and Female Barramundi c.1965 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark artist's name, language group and description on unknown label attached verso 72 x 55cm PROVENANCE: Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 June 1999 Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney 1999 Private collection, Sydney OTHER NOTES: "The Turtle followed a dreaming path, and after fighting with Porcupine. As a man he had dragged a stick making creeks and rivers in the vicinity of Oenpelli and then as a Turtle he swam along these creeks and rivers, travelling by water and short stretches of Land - Following the same Dreaming path. He was cooked and eaten by Mimis but they never broke him up in pieces or burnt up his remains." (As stated on label attached verso)

        Leonard Joel
      • OLD NYM DJIMURRGURR (c.1910-1970s) Narmakkon The Lightning Spirit c.1950s natural earth pigments on bark
        Sep. 22, 2020

        OLD NYM DJIMURRGURR (c.1910-1970s) Narmakkon The Lightning Spirit c.1950s natural earth pigments on bark

        Est: $6,000 - $8,000

        OLD NYM DJIMURRGURR (c.1910-1970s) Narmakkon The Lightning Spirit c.1950s natural earth pigments on bark 50 x 40.5cm (irregular) PROVENANCE: Lawson~Menzies, Sydney, 14 November 2007, lot 90 Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: This work was likely executed in the Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) region of Western Arnhem Land.

        Leonard Joel
      • Old Nym Djimurrgurr circa 1910 - deceased, NARMAKKON THE LIGHTNING SPIRIT, 1950s natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
        Nov. 27, 2013

        Old Nym Djimurrgurr circa 1910 - deceased, NARMAKKON THE LIGHTNING SPIRIT, 1950s natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

        Est: $8,000 - $12,000

        Old Nym Djimurrgurr circa 1910 - deceased, NARMAKKON THE LIGHTNING SPIRIT, 1950s natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark DIMENSIONS: 50.0 x 41.5 cm (irregular) PROVENANCE: Probably executed in the Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) region of Western Arnhem Land Private collection, New South Wales Lawson~Menzies, Sydney, 14 November 2007, lot 90 Private collection, Melbourne

        Deutscher and Hackett
      • Nym Djimurrgurr circa 1910-deceased LIGHTNING SPIRIT (CIRCA 1950) natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
        Oct. 15, 2012

        Nym Djimurrgurr circa 1910-deceased LIGHTNING SPIRIT (CIRCA 1950) natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

        Est: $5,000 - $7,000

        Nym Djimurrgurr circa 1910-deceased LIGHTNING SPIRIT (CIRCA 1950) natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 54 X 38CM PROVENANCE Painted at Oenpelli (Gunbalanya), Western Arnhem Land Private Collection, Victoria PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, VICTORIA

        Smith & Singer
      • NYM DJIMURRGURR CIRCA 1910-DECEASED
        Jul. 31, 2006

        NYM DJIMURRGURR CIRCA 1910-DECEASED

        Est: $15,000 - $25,000

        MOOROOL THE DREAMING MAN LATE 1950S MEASUREMENTS 69 by 33.5 cm Bears artist's name, date and size inscribed on the reverse together with label attached to the reverse Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark PROVENANCE Painted in the Kakadu/Oenpelli region of western Arnhem Land Private collection, Sydney Cf. For a painting of a similar ancestral being see 'Gnormo: A beneficent spirit', c.1912, in the Baldwin Spencer Collection at the Museum of Victoria, illustrated in Spencer, W. B., Wanderings in Wild Australia, Macmillan, London, 1928 (1967), fig. 524, and in Brody, A. M., Kunwinjku Bim: Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the Collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1984, p.70, plate iv Spencer (1928, p.807) describes the Gnormo spirit as living among the bamboo and only flying during the day or by moonlight, but 'not on dark nights.' Spencer suggests the image of the spirit is reminiscent of a possum as it is covered in hair with the 'very large hairy masses representing ears.' If a person falls ill, the Gnormo would find a medicine man to heal them Some of the information of the label on the reverse is incorrect. The artist was a member of the Jawoyn group in Kakadu on the fringes of western Arnhem Land The label on the reverse reads; 'In the Dreamtime after the mimis ceased to wander about in mobs visible to the naked eye it is said that they had many ceremonies but now the little mimis are unseen spirits of the rocks where they made drawings long ago. Nobody knows their ceremonies now nor the real meanings of the old rock drawings about them. About this time Moorool began walking over the country around Oenpelli and the Liverpool River. He was a strange man who had no wives and preferred to live alone, wandering from place to place. Today people refer to such social misfits as a Moorool'

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